Tom, however, had a better right arm. “I did have a 100 mph fast- ball,” he said with a smile. Henke was even blessed with one of the all-time great nicknames. “I got the nickname from my buddy John Cerutti, one of my best friends in the game,” Henke said. “We went to The Terminator movie back in ‘85 when we were in Syracuse (playing minor league baseball in the Toronto organization), and I was just having one of those Termina- tor-type years. Everything was going right for me; when a ball was hit hard, it was hit at somebody. I think I only gave up 13 hits in 59 innings,


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something like that, which is stupid. So John started calling me the Terminator in Syracuse, and it followed me up to the big leagues.” The Taos Terminator was born. The 6-5, 235-pound Henke was an  country kid ... except when he had a baseball in his hand and threw it 100 mph in your direction from 60 feet, 6 inches. And you were supposed to hit it with a stick. Henke was underappreciated for what he did in his 16-year ma-


 saves in Major League Baseball history with 311, and averaged 9.8  to go with his blistering fastball in 1985, he was one of the best relief pitchers in baseball for the next decade. He was still on top 


Louis Cardinals — when he was named the Rolaids Relief Man of the Year after notching 36 saves and a 1.82 ERA. “Somebody asked me one time what it took to be a great reliever, and I told them a short memory,” Henke said. “Don’t believe for a second that I ever forgot bad games, but you just had to get over them, you had to get past them.


“My dad taught me a lot, and I’d call him if I had a bad game. And he’d say, ‘Well, son, did you do the best you could?’ Well, you know I did, Dad. ‘No, can you look yourself in the mirror and say I did the best job I could do when I went out there? If you can do that, then forget about it.’


“I took that to heart. There wasn’t a time I ever went out on that mound and didn’t give it everything I had, I think that’s what I’m most proud of in my career.”


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